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Sirius Decisions Thinks Websites Will Generate 71% of All B2B Sales Leads by 2015. I Disagree.

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In fact, I’ll make almost the exact opposite prediction: “By 2015, the percentage of B2B leads that arrive via corporate Websites will shrink dramatically as marketers maintain multiple, distinct online channels that are optimized for demand generation.”. But effective to the point that they generate 71% of all sales leads?

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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

How can you efficiently nurture those long-term prospects, learning more about their interests in the process, until they are really ready to engage with sales? Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Book Review: eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale

Webbiquity

Without a solid content strategy to support that movement through the marketing and sales cycle, all you’ve got is a nice email system. Divided into six sections, as an appetizer the book starts off with eMarketing Essentials , the “why&# of using content marketing for complex sales. Share this on del.icio.us.

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How To Shorten The B2B Buyer Cycle With Landing Pages

Marketing Insider Group

Because of these two things, in order to win a B2B sale you first have to build trust, demonstrate how reliable your product is, and show how it is suitable for the particular business you’re speaking with. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy. 5% conversion rate of mostly unqualified leads.

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How To Shorten The B2B Buyer Cycle With Landing Pages

Marketing Insider Group

Because of these two things, in order to win a B2B sale you first have to build trust, demonstrate how reliable your product is, and show how it is suitable for the particular business you’re speaking with. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy. 5% conversion rate of mostly unqualified leads.

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Marketing Automation: Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

WebMarketCentral

How can you efficiently nurture those long-term prospects, learning more about their interests in the process, until they are really ready to engage with sales? Those are the types of questions marketing automation / demand generation software vendors seek to address with their offerings.

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MobileIron Harnesses End-User Demand to Drive Mobile IT Sales Leads

The Point

They turned to their demand generation agency , Spear Marketing Group , for ideas and asked Spear to develop a pilot campaign that would test the efficacy of marketing MobileIron’s solution to the end user audience. MobileIron feels the concept of marketing an IT solution to end users has been validated.